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The Man Who Would Be Queen by Hoshang Merchant Hoshang Merchant is considered as the first openly gay poet of independent India and Yaraana, edited by him, is perhaps the first gay anthology published in the country. His stunning poetry encapsulates the gay Indian experience in striking imagery and wild shifts of phrase. The stories and narratives of the queer community and homosexuality have never found a place in mainstream India.

Only recently, one can find stacks of queer and LGBTQ+ books amongst the many fiction and nonfiction paperbacks. Especially in India, the fight for gay rights had been extremely difficult. Considering a time of post s in India, it was impossible to write novels and stories on. If you’re ready to plunge into Indian queer literature at its best, his list is or you. Here are the best Indian queer books, including novels and memoirs, you should read.

Let’s be honest, for the longest time, queer characters in Indian books were either invisible or tragic sidekicks. This book is a compelling and practical guide for anyone looking to make the Indian corporate world more inclusive.

Drawing from his own experiences as an openly gay professional and head of Godrej India Culture Lab, Shahani offers actionable strategies for creating truly diverse workplaces. 3. Devdutt Pattanaik Devdutt Pattanaik is an openly gay Indian mythologist, illustrator, and author. After the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India, he came out as gay in a televised interview. He is known for his writing on folklore, legends, and fables.

His work focuses on myth, mythology, religion, and management. Moushumi Ghosh. How the doctor can tell just by shaking your hand what kind of shape your thyroid might be in. I know she only understand pieces of the excerpts she speaks a little English , but she understood it was a big accomplishment for me and made sure to attend. Verghese genuinely desires to understand his patients and soak in their stories.

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When I think now of the losses caused by AIDS, I am also haunted by the earlier losses, the times that might have been, the communication and sharing that for many will never be possible. This means that:. Verghese is an Indian doctor who grew up in Africa and studied in Boston. The book became an exercise in tedium and redundancy. Then they came home to die, and their families had to come to grips with—accept or reject—the people they had been all along.

Like many others, he found only the less popular hospitals and communities open to him, an experience he described in one of his early New Yorker articles, The Cowpath to America. It was spot on. Written by Rheea Mukherjee. Who we are. But as the study continued I heard their comments change. Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone was one of the best books I read last year. A Life Apart , deals with issues of Colonial India, the violence faced by homosexuals as well as the problems of gay sex work in current times, amongst other topics.

I learned so much from this book. This was soon topped by his fabulous novel Cutting For Stone - one of my all time favourites. But there's just something about the way he writes that makes me want more. But the kind of honesty and sympathy he exhibits in this memoir is rare. Like ontogeny repeating phylogeny -- the gills and one-chamber heart of a human fetus in the first trimester re-enacting man's evolution from amphibians -- they presaged their own subsequent wanderings and those of their children.

As a general rule, the quality of the writing in the things I normally read is a degree higher than the quality of what I read in the month of March. I work from anti-oppression, client-centred and psychodynamic perspectives. But Bengaluru-based Revathi remains best known for a striking autobiographical account of her life as a transgender woman. These writings take the form of poems, autobiographical accounts, short stories and excerpts from novels, with contributors ranging from Vikram Seth and Bhupen Kakkar to Mahesh Dattani and R.

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